EDITOR: Gov. Scott Walker’s rationale for cutting funds to the University of Wisconsin System — one of the best university systems in the country — by $300 million in order to balance the budget is ridiculous. If Walker really wanted to balance the budget, he would take the $315 million from the federal government for BadgerCare.

More and more Republican governors are taking this funding offered through the Affordable Care Act because it’s the right thing for their statesand its people. Wisconsin is now the only Great Lakes state that hasn’t taken the funds. If Walker were focused on what is best for Wisconsin, not his presidential ambitions, he would take the federal funds for BadgerCare and leave the UW System alone!